I'm having trouble trying to correct things.

If I press the minus key, right after I say something. It does bring up the correction menu, but sometimes even then it flashes then disappears, leaving me without a chance to do the correction.
I want to be able to put my text cursor before a certain word that's been dictated and then press the minus key to bring up the correction menu. Or maybe even be able to highlight a section, press the minus key and bring up the correction menu.

I've even tried switching the hot keys, but still I can't get it to work.
Why is this?

I'm using Windows Vista 64 bit.

I want to figure out as well, how to make it so certain spoken words. Don't initiate a certain command. Sometimes it just does something random, that's annoying.

You can verbally select or correct a word by sayin select <word or phrase>. But if you wish to correct in context (correct the entire dictated phrase) say insert after or before <word or phrase> followed by saying correct that.

Although you shouldn't have a problem switching hotkeys (assuming there is no conflict), you should find correcting my voice to be more efficient and natural. It is, after all, speech recognition .

You can only toggle off major collections of commands within NaturallySpeaking so you may find that you will occasionally accidentally trigger a command but learning proper dictation techniques will help. The 1st rule of thumb is to dictate an entire thought (hopefully a sentence) in a single breath as opposed to 1 or 2 words at a time which can trigger a command and will nearly always produce lower accuracy. If you need to dictate a specific word that you know is a command, like the word “file” you can always say no-caps file (if the word occurs in the middle of a sentence) or Cap File (if the word occurs at the beginning of a sentence or line). Holding the {Shift} Key down, while dictating, will also force NaturallySpeaking to accept dictation only. Holding the {Ctrl} Key will force command deployment. Although we do not prefer this option, you can always say switch to dictation mode to prevent NaturallySpeaking from deploying commands. You can switch back to normal mode by saying switch to normal mode .

Is there a way I can trigger corrects using a mouse and keyboard...

I find that to be easier then voice commands.

I also have the problem that with voice commands because it doesn't actually appear as text. Using the minus key doesn't correct it.

What voice command, what I used to just correct the last thing I said.

I see that there's also an option for recognition history how do I use the recognition history in order to train the vocabulary. for instance let's say, I said Mr. McGee and instead it triggered a voice command like "correct that", how could I go to the recognition history and then trained correct that to be Mr. McGee.

You can trigger the Correction Dialog Box by double clicking a word with your mouse if you put a checkmark in Enable double-click to correct under the Corrections tab of your DNS options.



The verbal command is Correct That and the default hot key is the {Minus} Key (only works on an extended keyboard). If you're using a notebook computer, you'll need to change this option.



Say view recognition history.

But, is there a way to correct mistakes directly from the recognition history if say I wanted to speak continually and then later go back and correct stuff?

Yes. Just say correct <word or phrase> from any Select-&-Say enabled application. You might want check out the How Do I Do I (Start) chapter of our KnowBrainer Installation/Training Guide

Sometimes it doesn't select the right word though...
Is there a way I can do this with a mouse and keyboard?

The default key for opening the corrections dialog box is the {Minus} Key on an extended keyboard. Note that you can change the default keys by opening DNS Tools/Options/Hotkeys tab.

You can also enable double-click mouse correction via your DNS Tools/Options/Correction tab by putting a checkmark in Enable doule-click to correct.

Hi, not sure what you actually mean - if you are having problems with the wrong instance of the same word (the word 'the' for example in the text, is not the right instance of 'the' that you wanted to correct)

If this is what you are asking, then, just say 'select again' or highlight the correct instance by dragging the mouse over the word you want to correct, and then say 'correct that'.

It is worth following this procedure as, when you finish the correction, Dragon adds the problem to it's record of errors made, and next time you use the word, there is a much better chance that Dragon will get it right.

This is why it is VERY important NOT to correct a word that you said, when you meant to say something else. In that case, Dragon simply transcribed what you said, it was NOT an error, and to use the 'correct that' in such a case is quite wrong - it will damage your accuracy, since, Dragon did NOT make a mistake - think about corrections very carefully, and if you have made such correction mistakes in the past, by mis-use of correction like that, I would definitely advise you to create a new user and stick to the proper correction procedure in all cases - it really does make a big difference.